New Delhi, Feb 25: Government on Wednesday said it foresees village and small-scale enterprises to generate most of the new employment opportunities during the 11th Plan period.
"Village and small scale enterprises (VSE) will provide
most of the new employment opportunities during the 11th
five-year plan," Minister of State for Labour and Employment
Oscar Fernandes today informed the Rajya Sabha in a written
reply to a question.
As part of the government`s measures to prevent job cuts
and generate them, Fernandes said a new scheme called Prime
Minister`s Employment Generation Programme (PMGEP) was started
in August 2008 for the 2008-09 to 2012-13 period.
He said the scheme is being implemented with an estimated
expenditure of Rs 4,735 crore towards margin money and Rs 250
crore towards backward-forward area linkages to generate
37.37-lakh additional employment opportunities.
Fernandes also said rural employment and urban
entrepreneurship schemes of the government, namely, Swarna
Jayanti Sahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) and National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) are part of the measures.
The government noted that two separate surveys had revealed
more than 6.09 lakh job losses during October 2008 to January
16, 2009 in Mining, Textiles, Metals, Gems and Jewellery,
Automobile, Transport and IT/BPO sectors which had contributed
more than 60 percent to GDP during 2007-08, he said.
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